Isn't it an exciting thought - that you can actually get paid to plan someone's wedding, the happiest day of a person's life? Think of the benefits of such a career option. You can put into play all your natural organizational talents, your innate creativity, also have fun, be your own boss and have total job satisfaction! Well, well! Quite a complete package don't you think?
These days, it has become commonplace to appoint a wedding planner - especially as everyone concerned is working till the last minute and no one has the time to spare to attend to the details. And of course, everyone wants the most important ceremony in one's life to go without a hitch. Hence the mushrooming of these 'Wedding planners'. These consultants can be hired for the complete wedding preparations and ceremonies, or for some portion of it like arranging the catering, transport etc.
How to stand out from the run of the mill consultants?
Remember that you have to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Should you be given full responsibility, you must understand that you would have to oversee all the minutest details to ensure that the whole thing is a super success. The advantage is that this career option needs no special qualification or experience in order to succeed. Just being a 'people person', a pleasant way of conducting yourself, a calm attitude - not prone to getting hassled, and an attention to detail will get you far in your chosen career.
How to go about the planning
- Prepare a time schedule
- Make a step by step checklist of all the tasks involved
- Prepare a wedding budget and get it approved
- Get proper advice about the actual wedding ceremony
- Get to know about the halls available and the rates so you can help in choosing the venue
- Find out and keep ready a list of priests and other officiating people according to the requirements of the client
- Keep a list of the nadaswaram/ shehnai artists ready
- Get information about the registration of the marriage
- The music or artist for the wedding reception will have to be suggested and arranged by you
- Get information about hall decorations and the cost involved
- Get information about caterers, photographers, florists, limousine company for arranging cars for special guests and family, stationers for printing the invitations etc
- Learn how to negotiate and save money - nothing will impress your client more
- Make enquiries about possible honeymoon destinations and the costs involved. Never be caught without proper information
- If your client is interested in an unusual wedding, gather enough information and come up with bright suggestions. Attend also to the business side of these like getting the licence, permission etc especially if it is going to be a destination wedding like a cruise or a resort
- Learn to price your services properly and get advice on how to draw up your contract in a professional manner
- Read as much as possible on the subject so that you can get creative ideas that will impress your clients
- Try to develop organizational skills so that people can recommend you as a professional wedding planner
- Prepare contract forms for all the job work that you are planning to delegate so that you can be in total control
These are but some of the basic things you have to attend to if you want to have a career as a Wedding Planner .You will have to improvise and never stop learning on the job if you want to become a super success in your chosen career. After all, each wedding will be a different experience!
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